Tip for Filling a Cake

Filling your cakes with something other than frosting can be a yummy treat! You can fill your cakes with just about anything you'd like to! Fresh fruit, pudding, jams, etc. All you have to do is have at least two layers to your cake and you can put some kind of filling in it!

The trick to filling your cakes though is to pipe a dam around the bottom layer of the cake. Like so:

You just take your tip #12 and go around the outside edge of the cake to make a "dam" of frosting so that the filling won't run out the side of the cake. To pipe the dam you just use the frosting that you are going to frost your cake with, but you need to make sure that the dam is STIFF consistency frosting and not the THIN consistency that you use to frost the outside of the cake with. You want to use the stiff consistency frosting so the dam will hold up and not squish down like the thin consistency frosting would. Make sure to pipe the dam and then allow it to crust over just a little so the frosting will set in and you are sure to keep your filling from spilling out and making a complete disaster of your cake! Once your dam is piped and has set you can put any kind of filling that you want to in between the two cake layers. Then you just frost your cake like normal and enjoy the surprise filling inside!

*Make sure that your cakes are leveled before you pipe your dam and put filling between the two layers!